The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural fossil”.

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums. Millions of years ago, our ancestors stopped using them, so humans ...

The central tendon is a large part of the diaphragm that anchors the diaphragm to the ribs. A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example, the left or right ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

Australopithecus had a variable but plant-based diet, according to an analysis of stable isotope data from seven hominin specimens dating back 3.5 million years from Sterkfontein in South Africa.